Durham Cathedral from the viaduct

5.20pm and the softly lit colossal building floats eerily

in the darkness above the city

twilight

jupiter and venus, the only lights in a clear sky

7.15am

a perfect half moon

in a perfect clear midnight blue sky

frost

frost on the grass

makes even our bedraggled and scruffy garden

beautiful

monday letterboxes

inverse proportions:

the larger the house

the smaller the letterbox

togetherness

the only sound in the room

is the clicking of two computer trackpads

café

two middle aged men in the M&S café

simultaneously fidget with their cups and watch for their wives

More Rain

an abrupt downpour reverberates ominously on the roof light

like an executioner's drumroll

persistant prickles

the tree is a weird genetically-modified prickle-less holly

but at it's roots new shoots are determined to revert

to their former glory

snow

huge wet flakes drift down

and melt into the icy puddles

cat

in the window a black cat stretches and arches it's back

the fur stands out in exaggerated black spikes

Rainbow

no washed-out fading archway this morning

the rain was torrential, the sun pierced brilliantly

the rainbow appeared radiant and triumphal